Peppy, bright, and oblivious, this musical revue at the Cornservatory, first performed in 2016 and “updated” for 2019, feels like it was created during a middle-school sleepover in a small, all-white midwestern town. Propped up by the music of powerful black women—from the songs of Missy Elliott, Beyoncé, and Janelle Monáe to parodies of Ciara and Whitney Houston hits—performed by a cast of 13 white women, this may be the least-nuanced portrayal of feminism I’ve seen since the 1980s. Apparently nobody thought to include a discernible token from any other demographic.
Correction: One of the performers is, in fact, Asian.
Through 3/30: Thu-Sat 8 PM, the Cornservatory, 4210 N. Lincoln, cornservatory.com, $12-$20.
